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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






2. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






3. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






4. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






5. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






6. Name six sources of grains






7. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






8. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






9. The higher the BMR a client has --






10. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






11. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






12. What is the function of vitamin E?






13. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






14. What type of people need extra protein?






15. What is normal albumin levels?






16. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






17. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






18. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






19. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






20. How many calories/gram is protein?






21. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






22. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






23. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






24. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






25. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






26. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






27. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






28. Where can you get more vitamin D?






29. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






30. What function is vitamin A?






31. When does BMR decrease?






32. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






33. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






34. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






35. Sources of fats






36. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






37. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






38. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






39. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






40. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






41. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






42. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






43. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






44. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






45. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






46. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






47. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






48. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






49. What are healthy sources of fats?






50. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?